Allyn Hunt of the Guadalajara Reporter writes about the core project of the "Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) between the US, Canada and Mexico in his 10/14 "South of North" column:
...building a giant limited-access "super highway" that will slice from the Mexican border at Laredo, Texas, through the heartland of the US, to Canada, just north of Duluth, MN... Without any discussion or approval from Congress, and no public debate, the Bush administration foresees containers from the Far East - including China - entering the US from the Mexican port of Lazaro Cardenas aboard Mexican trucks. At Laredo the trucks will pick up what will be America's most modern limited-access "International Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor" - described as four football fields wide, sporting ten lanes, as well as passenger and freight rail lines, bordered with gas and oiil lines running along its sides.
It's not surprising if you haven't heard of it. The MSM has hardly been forthcoming about the project.
Here is a map of the proposed superhighway cutting the US in two, along with another article on WorldNetDaily:
A Texas congressman is asking his colleagues as well as American citizens nationwide to join him in opposing a plan that describes itself as seeking more security and more prosperity for the United States, when in fact it may do neither.
Rep. Ron Paul has written his weekly "Texas Straight Talk" column about the "Security and Prosperity Partnership Of North America (SSP)," which, he says, "will likely make us far less secure and certainly less prosperous."
A key to that plan, he noted, is a massive new NAFTA superhighway about which WorldNetDaily has run a series of reports.
"A massive highway is being planned to stretch from Canada into Mexico, through the state of Texas," Paul wrote. "This is likely to cost the U.S. taxpayer untold billions of dollars, will require eminent domain takings on an almost unimaginable scale, and will make the U.S. more vulnerable to those who seek to enter our country to do us harm."
More description of the Superhighway from the October 14 Hunt column:
The trucks' first customs stop will be the "Kansas City SmartPort,"... to be built with taxpayer money beginning next year. There, trucks with containers headed within the US - say, to Los Angeles or Atlanta - will be rerouted. All of this will be executed without the services of the Longshoreman's Union or the Teamsters Union. The Texas Department of Transportation is overseeing this first leg of the highway, called the Trans-Texas Corridor.
The Port Authority of San Antonio, TX, has been busy coordinating work with the Chinese to open and develop North American Free Trade shipping ports in Mexico. Present efforts include the ports of Lazaro Cardenas and Manzanillo. This is part of the Mid-Continent Trade and Transportation Corridor's aim to use Mexican ports to ship containers of cheap goods produced by under-market labor in China and the Far East (undermining US jobs). It will use Mexican port labor to undercut US Longshoremen Union workers, Mexican railroad workers to undercut United Transportation Union railroad workers, and Mexican truckers to avoid using US Teamsters Union workers.
It is estimated, though strangely little noted in the mainstream media, that some 585,000 acres of productive farm and ranch lands will be abolished from the tax rolls permanently in Texas alone by the giant Mid-Continent Highway, while "upwards" of one million people will be displaced.
A broad cluster of US government agencies, squadrons of state and private organizations have been working quietly to create the super highway without the kind of fanfare a presidential administration expends on programs of such size, aimed at such a radical national transformation. %Though highway work is to begin next year, there have been no verbal flourishes from Bush.
From Hunt's column "South of North" in October 21 issue of the Guadalajara Reporter:
The North American Union/Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America (NAU/SPP) was dreamed up for a March 2005 Waco, Texas meeting of George W. Bush, Mexican President Vicente Fox and then- Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. The mobile spine of the NAU/SPP is NASCO, the North American Super Corridor Coalition, Inc., a "non-profit organization" dedicated to eliminating the borders, defining the geography, cultures, languages, history, political, fiscal and economic independence and the inimitable uniqueness of the three North American nations. All this is being attempted without any consultation with or approval by Congress - certainly without public involvement or debate - but instead through a flock of agencies in all t here nations.
Special Task Forces newly lodged in the US Department of Commerce and other, more powerful entities of the United States government, are said to be hurriedly, if quietly, at work to enable this strategem to commence next year. The first planned publicly visible step appears to be the Super Corridor, simply because it`s hard even for Rovian-minded manipulators to hide the construction of a highway [several] football fields wide, skirted by both freight and passenger railways as well as oil and natural gas lines.
A website called CorridorWatch is chronicling local Texas traumas surrounding construction of this monster.
More from Hunt's October 21 column:
In Canada, watchful sources reported a "secret" conference was held September 12-14 in Banff, Alberta, Canada, made up of a group of present and past elected federal cabinet-level officials and deputies from Canada, the US and Mexico. They met with unselected corporate, military, academic, financial and industrial leaders, and think tank members, to "strategize" the unification of Canada, the US and Mexico. "They conspired to... commit the unconstitutional act of castrating the national entities by planning ways to remove constitutional powers and protections granted to the citizens of all three nations."
"We decided not to recommend any things what would require legislative changes (meaning approval), because we won`t get anywhere," said Ron Covias. Covias is president of the Americas for Lockheed Martin, and former Pentagon adviser to Dick Cheney and chair of the US section of the North American Competitiveness Council created by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and George Bush at a Cancun meeting in March. People familiar with the Banff conference proceedings note that Covias said, "The guidance from the (government leaders attending) was..., (T)ell us what we need to do (to make this plan work) and we`ll make it happen."
This September meeting was diaried by El Cid on September 25, 2006.